Many people have written about media literacy. One characteristic about all this thinking about media literacy is that authors will focus on different kinds of media. The most fundamental use of the term literacy applies to a person's ability to read the written word. With the advent of additional technologies to convey messages, people have also written about the need for visual literacy, story literacy, and computer literacy, to name a few areas of media focus. In this book, I take a broad perspective that is concerned with people's ability to access and process information from any form of transmission.